Queen
Just thirteen women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one. The name means simply "queen", from the Old English cwēn.
Queen Pronunciation
What Queen means
Where Queen comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Queen names a rank. The English word comes from Old English `cwēn`, which first meant a woman or a wife before it rose to mean the woman who rules. Its old cousins sit across the Germanic languages, and further out the root links to Greek gynē, the plain word for woman. So the short meaning, królowa, sits at the top of a long climb from an ordinary noun.
As a given name Queen belongs to English-speaking custom. It has no diminutive, no Polish variant, no softened cross-gender form. What you write on the form is what you get.
A child called Queen in a Polish szkoła would stand out in the dziennik, one English word among the Zuzannas and Antonis. The name states its meaning to anyone who knows the old root `cwēn`.
How many people are named Queen
1 in 1734141 women in Poland is named Queen. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13617 among female names.
Queen as a middle name
Queen is a first name for 13 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3810th, between Prudence (5) and Quyên (5).
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#3808 Priyanka5
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#3809 Prudence5
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#3810 Queen5
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#3811 Quyên5
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#3812 Rachida5